Thinking Outside The Bud

Karim Webb is an Entrepreneurial Activist and CEO of 4thMVMT, a Los Angeles based firm that vets, trains, finances, and partners with individuals from communities who have been heavily impacted by the disproportionate application of criminal justice to own and operate competitive retail businesses. 4thMVMT believes entrepreneurship is the most effective vehicle for Black and Latino people to exist...

Austin is the Chief Innovation Officer at Vertosa. He leads all commercial activities, including technical sales, tactical marketing, and new business development. Prior to joining Vertosa, Austin leveraged his bio-tech experience building the regulatory Hemp/CBD testing program for Eurofins Scientific - a world leader in food, environment, and product testing services – where he built and designe...

Nuka CEO and Cofounder Peter Barsoom has an extensive career experience in finance and business strategy, holding a variety of senior management positions at leading institutions including American Express, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Blue Mountain Capital and Intercontinental Exchange. In 2015, Mr. Barsoom left the financial industry to found Nuka Enterprises (Nuka) and the 1906 brand, special...

Thinking Outside the Bud is a business podcast devoted to driving innovation in the cannabis space. During each episode, we speak with founders, investors, thought leaders, researchers, advocates, and policy makers who are finding new and exciting ways for cannabis to positively impact business, society, and culture. Have each episode delivered to your inbox by subscribing here: http://www.thinkin...

Chris Ball is the Founder of Ball Family Farms, Inc., the first vertically integrated, minority-owned, Social Equity commercial cannabis facility in Los Angeles. Mr. Ball is an accomplished entrepreneur and innovative cultivator. The Southern California native began selling cannabis as a teen to put himself through college where he played Division 1 football. After a short stint as a member of the...

After touring nationally for years in a fun, but mediocre, college band, Will Read made the decision to hit the right-hand turn signal and merge into a slower lane of life - beginning, what would be, a transformational career with Apple. There, Will would not only understand basic principals in sales (and why people liked certain brands + products), but the importance of the "retail experienc...

Nathaniel Pennington, Founder and CEO at Humboldt Seed Company has been breeding cannabis and working to restore rivers and salmon populations in Humboldt County for over 20 years. Prior to taking on his role at Humboldt Seed Company, Pennington worked in salmon genomics, which gave him the background to understand the need for unbiased cannabis genomics research. Pennington founded Humboldt Seed...

Joel Allcock has been a licensed cultivator of Cannabis in his native state of Rhode Island since 2006, where he was a licensed medical marijuana caregiver tasked with providing medical grade Cannabis for his registered patients. In 2009, Allcock co-founded a group applying for the first state licensed medical marijuana dispensary in Rhode Island. In the course of preparing the application for ope...

Jack Grover is the founder and CEO of Grove Bags, a provider of cannabis packaging specifically tailored for the unique physiology of the plant to create the perfect climate for cannabis preservation. After graduating from Babson College in 2014, Jack was inspired by his brother Charlie’s battle with cerebral palsy to enter the cannabis industry and create packaging that preserves medicine at its...

Kimberly Dillon is the founder of Frigg, a wellness line that tackles the impact of stress on the hair and skin, as well as conditions like Psoriasis and Eczema that flare up due to stress. The first three products include a hair potion, a face potion, and a calming sleep tea. She got her start in Cannabis as the CMO of Papa & Barkley, a Cannabis startup that she helped grow to a 30 Million do...

Mr. Utkhede has 22 years of experience in formulation and process development with a proven track record for solving difficult to formulate and manufacture products within aggressive timelines. He has extensive experience developing robust and commercially scalable manufacturing processes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of...

Josh Weiss is an IT visionary with more than a decade of experience in the technology and entrepreneurial/startup worlds. His love of technology itself is exceeded only by his passion for delivering IT solutions to empower artists, creators and entrepreneurs. The best part of his job is studying clients’ businesses, discovering their unique needs and then developing tailored solutions that enable...

2019 National Law Journal “Finance, Banking, & Capital Markets Trailblazer” award winner, Senior Counsel Steve Schain chairs global cannabis law firm Hoban Law Group's Pennsylvania and New Jersey practice and chairs its Financial Services Group. With 17 offices and 52 lawyers, Hoban Law Group is only practice 100% devoted to cannabis and hemp law. Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New J...

Franny is an inspiring farmer that rocks the hemp scene across the country. She is the first female farmer in North Carolina to plant hemp and has entered the hemp scene with a force behind education and collaborations, She is a founding member of Women in Hemp non-profit, been keynote speaker and presenter across the country. Franny has degrees and work experience in Forestry and Education and wo...

Bosco Ramirez Sr. has been in the analytical testing industry for the last 30 years. The majority of the time in the Environmental Testing space and also food testing. He recently moved into the nascent Cannabis testing industry this year working for CannaSafe. Bosco has worked for the largest testing companies in the the environment and food industries and now with CannaSafe he joins the 13th Fas...

Kellan's currently serves volunteers for MJBizCon's Emerald Scientific Conference as well as an Organizer for the American Chemical Societies Cannabis division. His previous experience ranges from speaking at MJBizCon in the fall of 2018 on extraction science to managing the industrial-scale, carbon dioxide-based supercritical fluid extraction and ethanol extraction facilities for a cultivation an...

Andrew DeAngelo is a visionary leader with a proven track record of enacting systemic social change and developing best practices in cannabis — he is the very definition of a trailblazer and someone who has proudly walked the road less traveled. During his almost 13-year tenure at Harborside, where he currently serves as an advisor, Andrew has pioneered legal cannabis business processes and provid...

Jessie Kater is the SVP of Manufacturing for Curaleaf, a leading vertically integrated cannabis operator in the United States. Jessie has over 15 years of experience in product development and commercialization across defense, pharmaceutical and cannabis markets. Prior to Curaleaf, Mr. Kater worked at Waters Corporation where he led sales and business development in the Cannabis market across the...

James is a successful serial entrepreneur, with a lifelong focus on using business and innovation to effect large-scale change for the benefit of Humanity. Throughout his career he created several companies in natural and integrative medicine, wrote legislation to improve prohibitionary laws, produced award-winning documentaries, and founded some of the top companies in education, cannabis and hum...

John has over 20 years of deep enterprise and advertising agency experience across all marketing, sales, and IT disciplines. John’s experience allows him to advise on structuring sound strategies that address business goals and objectives. His extensive technology background stems from working with several leading technology companies throughout his career. John spearheads Applied DNA Sciences Can...

Joyce leads operations at Big Rock Partners, a strategic advisory firm serving investors and companies at the intersection of food, hospitality and cannabis. A long time craft cannabis cultivator, she co-founded an Emerald Cup winning operation, and served as co-chair for Women Grow, Sonoma. She is an advisor for various female founders of early stage companies that are innovating in cannabis, and...

In 2012, a bad slip and fall during pregnancy left this former High School Teacher riddled with chronic pain, until her academic else and desire for natural healing led the bold mom to enter the Cannabis space. Now, an industry veteran and Master Educator, Mskindness B. Ramirez is the CEO of EBK Apothecary, Founder of Club Kindness, and Adjunct Faculty for the Los Angeles Community College Distric...

Steve serves as Think20’s Chief Marketing Officer. He excelled in various sales management roles for roughly 15 years working for Janssen Pharma, GlaxoSmithKline, Endo Pharma, and Neurocrine Biosciences. Over the past eight years, he has owned and managed GeneMatrix, a global laboratory consulting company. With the combination of Steve’s relevant background and experience, Think20 is uniquely posi...

Thinking Outside the Bud is a business podcast devoted to driving innovation in the cannabis space. During each episode, we speak with founders, investors, thought leaders, researchers, advocates, and policy makers who are finding new and exciting ways for cannabis to positively impact business, society, and culture. Have each episode delivered to your inbox by subscribing here: http://www.thinkin...

Jessica currently serves as a Cannabis and Intellectual Property attorney at Bressler Amery & Ross, DC. Jessica also serves as outside General Counsel for the national organization Minorities For Medical Marijuana and sits on the board of advisors for QA Canna, a cannabis quality assurance company based in New Jersey. Jessica also sits on the Federal Policy Committee for the Minority Cannabis...